Senior army officers to practice cyber attack response during operational gathering - Shoigu
MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax-AVN) - The use of long-range high-precision weapons and Syrian combat experience will be discussed during a three-day operational gathering of senior officers of the Russian Armed Forces, which began in Moscow on Tuesday, Russian Defense Minister Gen. of the Army Sergei Shoigu said.
"The main focus will be on air defense issues, the use of long-range high-precision weapons and of reconnaissance-strike and reconnaissance-firing systems," Shoigu said at the gathering, which began at the Military Academy of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff.
The participants "will practice responses at field command-and-control stations under conditions of hostile cybernetic and electromagnetic interferences," Shoigu said.
"Modern warfare requires of commanding officers high professionalism, [being under] constant pressure, unconventional thinking, the ability to find and realize new forms and ways of deploying troops and forces in a most complicated environment," Shoigu said.
"Today to secure a victory in fighting it is necessary to perfect the theory and practice of the art of war to reflect tendencies in the development of the military-political and strategic environment. This is fully proved by the Syrian combat experience, which is being actively used in organizing the combat training of commands, formations and military units," Shoigu said.
The upcoming practice sessions involving senior-rank officers will be held at the Military Academy of the General Staff and at the training areas of the Western and Southern Military Districts, the minister said. "The main emphasis will be on training military command bodies and tactical units, [and] honing field, aerial and maritime skills," Shoigu said.
The gatherings will end with a series of roundtables on approaches to developing the practice of modern warfare and battle management and on how to introduce them into operational and tactical training of troops and forces. "The results of the gathering will be used to work out specific recommendations on how to raise the quality of training staffs and troops," Shoigu said.